Still getting people in my comments insisting that Japan must be hiding tens of thousands of new cases, because the decline in the official numbers doesn't match their expectations of how outbreaks happen and are contained. But the decline is real, not an artifact of testing.https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1259778325410508800 …
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The current level of public discourse, where it is taken as axiomatic that any country that has kept the body count low must have better policies in place than countries struggling with large outbreaks, is unsatisfying. A particularly egregious example:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/coronavirus-europe-resilience.html …
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I watched a loved one get cancer because Romanian doctors couldn't conduct a simple Pap smear (despite claiming it was invented there). The examining room they put her in had a pyramid of cabbages in it. I don't buy for a minute that Eastern Europe is now an oasis of competence
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Unfortunately, the idea that the former communist world and developing countries can outperform America and western Europe in public health fits a certain ideological predisposition. We want the virus to dunk on the US health care system! So too few people are asking questions
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If we don't pay attention to the baffling geographical discrepancies in the impact of this disease, then we will simply be ceding this ground to whatever "covid truthers" eventually emerge as a cohesive political force, and it will be infinitely harder to talk about this sanely
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For the time being, you can still say "the central dogma of how major outbreaks happen and are contained doesn't seem to fit the facts" and not be declaring your political allegiance to something. But that window is closing. Already I'm getting called a right-winger! (Hail hydra)
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It’s entirely possible to strain that’s in the US is different than the strain that is there.
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Obesity levels, type 2 diabetes levels, better personal hygene?
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So how about we wait three weeks and see who was right?
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